Monthly Archives: January 2014

Scorsese’s latest, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, has an intensity and a fluency that is dazzling and kept me hooked for the full three hours. Here is the eye of the storm of corruption with a rudderless Captain Ahab (the … Continue reading →

The Sunday papers were especially good this week. We made a rare foray into The Sunday Times as well as The Observer, mad, bourgeois devils that we are: A.A.Gill in the Times hits the spot, focusing on how, not what … Continue reading →

In the scramble to hail Israeli director, Rama Burshtein’s FILL THE VOID as a quiet and elegant success, a new look at the closed world of Charedi Judaism, a world of great “otherness”, and in particular the thorny issue of … Continue reading →